Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:05 am on November 15, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Hours after Barack Obama scolded America for being too lazy to attract foreign investment, the President set an example for the nation by … hitting the links. And conservatives can take heart, too, because Obama got a chance to golf with a real patron of capitalists:

President Obama golfed on Monday with his long-time friend Robert Titcomb, who in May plead no contest to soliciting a prostitute, according to the White House pool report.

“The president’s fourball at the Mamala Bay Golf Course includes his long-time friend Robert “Bobby” Titcomb who was arrested and plead no contest in May to soliciting a prostitute, Marvin Nicholson, and White House advance man Pete Selfridge,” the report read.

In April, Titcomb was arrested in Honolulu and charged with a misdemeanor for soliciting a prostitute after he approached an undercover police officer. Titcomb’s attorney, William Harrison, said at the time that Titcomb did not fully agree with the facts of the case, but plead no contest because he wanted to take responsibility.

Titcomb is an old high-school friend of Obama, so give the President full marks for personal loyalty along with a demerit on public relations. But if Obama objects to America’s laziness, how does he justify spending his Monday on the golf course while Congress and its so-called super committee debates how to reduce deficit spending, in part to boost the very investment Obama lamented less than a day earlier?

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how does he justify spending his Monday on the golf course while Congress and its so-called super committee debates how to reduce deficit spending, in part to boost the very investment Obama lamented less than a day earlier?

I thought it was already established that Obama’s lecturing tone is intended for the American people. The rules he dictates don’t apply to himself. Rather than ask him to abide by the rules he sets for us, we should simply be grateful to have him as our leader.

You know, the funny thing is, I think this is the laziest president this nation ever had. While he was a professor at the University of Chicago, did he do legal research and publish articles in law journals? No, he wrote memoirs, which is the laziest “scholarship” there is. When he met Michelle at the law firm, was he himself working hard there to become a partner? No, he was just killing time waiting for other opportunities. And when he was in the Illinois Senate, did he study bills to determine how best to cast his vote? No, it’s easier in Illinois to just vote “present.” And he golfs on Monday. Maybe someday we’ll have a lesbian president, but for now the L word in the White House is “lazy.”

Football Legend Joe Theismann said the following yesterday to the Daily Caller:

“To me, leadership is: You stand up in front and you give direction to people and you say ‘this is where we want to go’ instead of sitting down and blaming somebody else and saying, ‘well, they’re not cooperating so we can’t get this done,’”

I think we all have seen enough of Obama’s “leadership skills” to know he is light years from this position Theismann is talking about.

A prostitute? Heck, most of his administration have sold themselves for far less than a roll in the hay. Pointing out the left’s sexual degeneracy is merely reinforcing what they believe to be a badge of homor. It’s sad that the right only wants to talk about money when there left has instituted a morally corruptive agenda -that it might break apart the family and religion in order to institute its Godless totalitarianism.

The peasants are suffering yet the King and Queen are off traveling the world on our dime, with the pretense that it’s work related so we’re stuck with the bill. And what’s with Michelle going to that organic farm to give a lecture on her “Let’s Move” program to eliminate childhood obesity, then she then hands out boxes of M&M’s to the kids.

But if Obama objects to America’s laziness, how does he justify spending his Monday on the golf course while Congress and its so-called super committee debates how to reduce deficit spending, in part to boost the very investment Obama lamented less than a day earlier?

Easiest question to answer ever: HE DOESN’T CARE!!! He’s the most famous President ever and that’s all he wanted out of this gig. He doesn’t care about you, business, anything. He wants to spend stupid amounts of YOUR money and get rich doing it.